Mike Oldfield - Montreux 1981 - Ommadawn 3/3

[manprogrock]

Never seen such a wonderful percussion jam like this. Brilliant! Way to go Mike!

[waldfriedling]

einzigartig! unbeschreiblich! ein geniestreich! ich liebe ommadawn!

[baruchinR]

Anyone else thinks the drummer was an inspiration for creating the Muppets' Animal?

[flowerchild1950]

He has a website and has recently released a new album which is awesome!

an old fan, cher

[MrElias090295]

His guitar sound is like a horse scream or something like that, and I think it sounds nice and original :D

[tofi21]

listening to and watching mike oldfield is like participating a tribal orgazm.

[salrova69]

Clímax absoluto en el final de esta obra maestra titulada "Ommadawn".

[bodoboi]

Morris Pert.......... killa !

[cestmoimarie1504]

suite parfaite aux versions 1/3 et 2/3...la 3ème est tout ausi enchanteresse

[irmuddled]

Simply AMAZING.

[KAPNIZW]

Of greatest  music themes .!!!!!!!!!!

[hasouris]

exalent

[darienneb]

Thank you so much for uploading this video!! I hired this performance on video from my local video shop on the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia about 20 years ago and have been searching for it ever since! It is so wonderful to be able to watch it through as many times as I like! Mike is just amazing and I love everything he has done. What an incredible and unique musician!!!!

[purplefurball]

I had it on cassete tape about 1800 years ago...it is still brilliant thanx for posting

[Perkanot]

Minuto 4:38... hasta final... grandioso...

Gracias por el video

[jimsim3]

so sad he gone.but he left an ever lasting memory. that will last a vary long time.

jimsim.

[Dessagidir]

Yesterday i sadly read, that Morris Pert - the drummer in the blue shirt - passed away in April 2010 at the age of 63!!

So R.I.P Morris! Your music and performances will outlive!

[samoscastor]

Percussions players are mad ! And great so !

[kautokeine]

Very fine art of drumming!

[GpunktHartman]

wenn die vorstellung nicht so grausam wäher .... man könnte meinen der Trommler sei der Spinner von Telemedial ...

[kautokeine]

This is one of my very very favorites! ThankU for upload!

[tammas2000]

Do it again, just...do it again!

[Dyslexica]

Love the percussion that starts this section. It's player vs. player. We're the winners for this post!

[aaalexaify]

Po prostu Perfekt

Einfach Toll

[jumhed]

Drummer reminds me of animal from the Muppets.

[Tjoppy]

hahaha yeah me too

[Bohochique1]

lmao sooooooooo true.. fabulous end to song that sends me in to a nice place.. magical :)

[jumhed]

True. Before LOTR was released as a film I imagined from the books the Elves would make music like this.

[paraplegia]

Poor little sweetie, Maggie Reilly! How could she sing in the midst of that mayhem? Not only Moonlight Shadow. I love her, and I love Mike too.

[cfov]

Brilliant! I saw this tour in the US. Mike only played 3 cities in the US. Saw him in Phialdelphia. That should be Pierre Morlen on percussion as well

[Kinbaza]

That is one of the best songs of that time. Impressive ^^

[gazmanc1]

leo sayer on the drums helping out. haha

[lsdmadman]

ahhhhhhhh flagrant sideburns...we hardly knew ye........

[bluesgunner]

A gentleman is not a gentleman without his side-whiskers, as the old adage goes ;)

[sweepxcore]

its chuck norris!!!

[nolicnotrut]

Many thanks for this lot. (I mean ALL of it!)

Until I discovered youtube, I believed that Mike Oldfield was simply a brilliant and talented musician who spent his life mixing stuff in a recording studio.

(Sorry, Mike!)

I never believed anybody could do this stuff live - that's remarkable - and not a score in sight!

[lsdmadman]

i, in my excess of time on my hands, wanna start a core spirituality based on the KEYBOARDIST'S SHIRT that embraces all creeds, denominations and shoe sizes... well.... i can lucid dream can't i???

[soundchaser1986]

Morris Pert´s drumming style is similar to Animal from the "Muppet Show". But anyway, he´s a great percussionist, I also like his work with Brand X.

[timelinebingo]

Ommadawn zusammen mit Tubular Bells und Hergest Ridge spiegeln die Genialität Mike Oldfields wieder. Niemals wieder hat er je etwas ähnlich geniales geschaffen. War damals auf seinem Konzert in Münster, muss 1979 oder 1980 gewesen sein. Auch die Sängerin passte sehr gut zu dem Klangbild. Zuletzt habe ich Ommadown zu meinem 2007 bei der Nokia Night of the proms gesehen. Es war eine absolute Überaschung für mich, das er das gespielt hat. Emotion pur. Hat noch jemand Erinnerungen an seine Konzerte?

[0711195911]

Du hast absolut recht: Diese drei CD's (früher sagte man LP's) sind für mich nach wie vor unerreicht. Ich höre sie auch heute noch regelmässig. Ich war am Konzert in Montreux und später (ich laube es war 1982) in Zürich. Beide Konzerte waren unbeschreiblich, Montreux war intimer aber in Zürich war der Sound besser.

[bemoni]

Morris Pert is still around and he haven't changed that much, still got the side-burns, but has turned grey, though.

Anyway, this was a great performance!!!!

[trevoruk2]

I thought it was Kenny Everett>> LOL

Brilliant all three parts, I'm a great fan of Mike Oldfield since 80's

Listened to his music while i was down the Falklands in 83 & 85. Class Pure Class Music better that the rubbish out now. If you like this then you will ilke Jean Michel Jarre as well.

Trev

[silvesterde]

i loved listening to Mike Oldfield and JMJarre in the 80s, but it's Mike Oldfield i still hear, more and more again. Jarre is so boring against that. i think the mathematic spheres s of Jarres sounds were fascinating then (if i had heard of wendy carlos, i had prefered his music). My feelings, my opinion.

[genesisrock43]

@silvesterde is wendy carlos the one who did the clockwork orange theme?

[silvesterde]

@genesisrock43 yes, and although i saw the film in the eighties, i got the music record only a few years ago. He/she did not only compose the theme, but a wonderful record for the movie, with more/other tracks than used on the movie. So there are two editions: the soundtrack with tracks you hear in the movie, and the more interesting Clockwork-Orange record with more tracks and a booklet with interview.

[genesisrock43]

@silvesterde Oh right, I'll have to look that up. I love the music in the film, thanks.

[paisleyprint]

I'm not a fan of drum solos, but it's worth sitting through for the guitar bit at the end (4:20+).

[NoMaTeC]

There's just so much passion in Mike

[lsdmadman]

zhaleh sez that morris' sideburns could/should cause some kinda matter/antimatter detonation  cuz they are SO NOT OF THE 80s and these hairy exttrustions SUPPOSEDLY existed in the aforementioned decade...so there

[lsdmadman]

this rocks,,,bringz baack oooold memories,,thanky mucho..love morris' sideburns ' didnt think those were anatomically correct in the wack 80s

[KingOfTheZulus]

great performance. ommadawn was one of my first self buyed records in the seventies (so many nice memories....). but where's that final "horseride"-part? you know: "hey all the way we go thru the grass, cross the snow...."?

[Petiber]

they only play the first side

[ianstronach]

morris pert was percusionist with brand x

[merlinLHL]

ALL HAIL MORRIS PERT

[langersamstag]

THANKS FOR THE INFO IKE

[munyones]

On the album this part was performed (if I recall correctly) by African drummers from Jabula. Awesomew!

[IKE66]

Drummers are Morris Pert (blue t-shirt and sunglasses), Mike Frey (black t-shirt) and Rick Fenn (regular playing guitar and bass)

[goozitsa]

cool

[MEGAMIGA]

Mike would be nothing without rhythm! ;-)